good to be with you. i m ayman mohyeldin in new york. thursday s hearings of the january six committee was basically the mike pence show, revolve around the pressure campaign by donald trump s allies to get the vice president to use his constitutional, ceremonial role, on january the 6th, to change joe biden s electoral votes, or set them aside for donald trump. the panel may know about painting pence as a man of courage, who stood up against trump s plan. we are fortunate for mr. pence s courage on january 6th. our democracy came dangerously close to catastrophe. that courage put him in tremendous danger. when mike pence made it clear that he wouldn t give into donald trump s scheme, donald trump turned a mob on him. thanks in part to mike pence, our democracy was stood on trump s scheme and the balance of january 6th. all right. the committee wasn t alone. in fact, an article in the atlantic last week hailed pence as a national hero for turning back the threat t
good afternoon. this is almost no idea more un-american then the notion that any one person could choose the american president, no idea more un-american. i agree with that. which is unusual because former vice president mike pence and i don t agree on much. these are his words spoken a few months ago about donald trump s attempt to pressure the former vice president pressure him into going along with an unlawful and unconstitutional scheme to overturn the 2020 and give dawn trump a second tournament office. today, the select committee is going to reveal the details of that pressure campaign. but what does the vice president of the united states even have to do with the presidential election? the constitution says that the vice president of the united states oversees the process of counting the electoral college votes. the process that took place on january 6th, 2021. donald trump wanted mike pence to do something no other vice president has ever done. the former president wa
and is a soft landing for the u.s. economy still possible, or are we heading toward a recession? let s ask the chairman and ceo of baird company. jason, nice of you here. lots of turmoil in the financial markets. i wonder what you think they re telling us. is this just the end of easy money with higher rates adjustment and the adjustment to that, or is it something deeper in the economy? i think it primarily is an end to easy money, and the fact really is that the fed has obscured what the rate in the markets has been for 13 year. so there s an adjustment period right now. i think most of the decline in stocks thus far has been associated with higher interest rates and an acknowledgment the that inflation is a little bit more structural. what you haven t seen yet and which is somewhat concerning for us is that you haven t seen earnings expectations for, for many companies come down yet. and so right now it would be hard to say that the market is telling you there s going
good to see you again. i m yasmin vossoughian. we ve got a lot to get to the sour. we have the cdc voting to recommend the covid vaccine for children under the age of five. if that means millions of kids now eligible to be vaccinated. then we ve got explicit testimony from the january 6th hearings this week. we have that special all last hour. highlighting the danger that the vice president was in. also startling information that ginni thomas s role in trying to overturn the 2020 election is in fact bigger than previously thought. the question now is, will she testify? and the former president, accusing the january 6th committee of selective, calling the committees evidence a complete and total lie, during a rambling 19 minutes at a conservative conference last night. and continuing to attack his former vice president. the election was perfect. and the democrats are sitting back, saying no where we re gonna impeach this guy. no. it s terrible. but mike was afraid of wha
does she feel like she owes an apology? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. as riveting as the stories were, it was who was telling them that gave way to chilling testimony before the january 6th committee today about donald trump s pressure campaign on his vice president, mike pence, to stage an illegal one-man attempt to overturn the presidential election results one pence adviser calling it constitutional mischief another warning it risked the election being settled in the streets. members of pence s inner circle testifying about the presidential tweets, public taunts, and angry phone calls any they say pence was subjected to the panel releasing never-before-seen photos of vice president pence sheltering during the capitol riot reading a trump tweet as rioters roamed the grounds above him. pence praised by the committee for refusing to go along with the plan to reject the electoral votes. garrett haake is at the capitol with details. [